2022 NBA Offseason Thread: Preseason kicks off; Things are fine in Los Angeles, Draymond beats the charges

[RustyShackleford]

Kids modeling their game after Jordan Poole now.

GOOD MORNING RustyShackleford

Society going downhill at a record pace.

 

[flyerthandelta]

Knicks better give up them picks for Mitchell before the league actually snatches them lol

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Sheesh! Was this posted before?

Iverson Harden KD Duncan Hakeem?

(Not sure what I want to do here at PG)
Klay
KD
KG
Dreams

 

[addict4sneakers]

(Not sure what I want to do here)
Klay
KD
KG
Dreams

Why not ray Allen over Klay?

 

[B Sox]

Gimme the Knicks under too!!

 

[nick.]

A projected second round pick won't have the chance to be drafted cause a team spoke to a free agent too early.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Why not ray Allen over Klay?

Klay is a better defender. I need as much of that as I can get. Main reason why I called KG to suit up. I need that defensive versatility.

I need somebody in my lineup that knows his role and shuts his mouth and Klay said he would do that for us.

 

[MVP]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Some guys are a bit thinner but have some nasty core strength .

Wiggins is thin but can back down in the block, Kobe too was another one of those strong core guys

I come in peace but how are you able to determine core strength while watching someone hoop?

Not saying it can't be done but just wondering HOW it's done.

I come in peace.

 

[nick.]

Knicks won 37 games with pretty much everything going wrong.

Vegas had their win total at 41.5 before taking it off the board, after filling their biggest need and improving their bench? Idk.

 

[freeze]

Ok then.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Knicks won 37 games with pretty much everything going wrong.

Vegas had their win total at 41.5 before taking it off the board, after filling their biggest need and improving their bench? Idk.

Jump in the bet if you are feeling confident.

Name your price.

 

[Nipsey3000]

Corey Brewer was 6’9” 180-190lbs his whole career and was routinely one of the best defenders in the league. Not having much mass does not mean you’ll automatically be food on defens3

Don't put words in my mouth man...

just to clarify...I never said it suggested anyone was automatic food. I never said that in order to be a good defender you had to be big.

Murray has been a good defender in his career. He made an all defensive team in 2018 before his injury.

brewer was a SF/SG. So, yeah, he had a great defensive skillset guarding his position.
It's not like they asked him to check Garnett, Webber, O'Neal, Duncan etc. If they did, I'm sure his deficiencies would have been more obvious.

Me suggesting that a small backcourt might not work as intended isn't unheard of.

We will see

 

[datznasty]

 

[datznasty]

 

[HIM]

Sheesh! Was this posted before?

Iverson Harden KD Duncan Hakeem?

Cousy
Kawhi
Bird
Duncan
Russell

 

[pums]

I come in peace but how are you able to determine core strength while watching someone hoop?

Not saying it can't be done but just wondering HOW it's done.

I come in peace.

ability to competently defend guys on the block relative to frame

 

[VARNELL HILL]

Don't put words in my mouth man...

just to clarify...I never said it suggested anyone was automatic food. I never said that in order to be a good defender you had to be big.

Murray has been a good defender in his career. He made an all defensive team in 2018 before his injury.

brewer was a SF/SG. So, yeah, he had a great defensive skillset guarding his position.
It's not like they asked him to check Garnett, Webber, O'Neal, Duncan etc. If they did, I'm sure his deficiencies would have been more obvious.

Me suggesting that a small backcourt might not work as intended isn't unheard of.

We will see

I think what people are trying to tell you is that in 2022...Dejounte Murray is not as small or at any kind of disadvantage defensively as you're trying to make it seem. Nothing is going to change as far as his profile defensively. 6'4 w/ a 6'10 wingspan is not "small". He's been guarding big and small guards his entire career. If you can't recall some 2 posting him up 20 times a game before...it's probably not going to start happening now.

 

[getback]

KNICKS over under 43.5 games

DC: under
Getback: Over

How much we doing?

Thought you were talking about the Nuggets

 

[nick.]

Jump in the bet if you are feeling confident.

Name your price.

Me? Confident? In the Knicks?

you got me ****** up

 

[MVP]

 

[storm2006]

Dejounte being a man of the people


I imagine the competing benefits as well despite getting 40,50,60 hung on them as well

 

[Nipsey3000]

I think what people are trying to tell you is that in 2022...Dejounte Murray is not as small or at any kind of disadvantage defensively as you're trying to make it seem. Nothing is going to change as far as his profile defensively. 6'4 w/ a 6'10 wingspan is not "small". He's been guarding big and small guards his entire career. If you can't recall some 2 posting him up 20 times a game before...it's probably not going to start happening now.

My issue wasn't ever with Murray himself. It's the introduction to a backcourt where he's now the bigger of the 2.

It's not even about height and wingspan alone.

Trae young is 165lbs soaking wet with boots on. Murray at 180lbs gives up 40lbs to guards like brown and smart and many others.

Again, what I'm saying isn't a new thought process. Shorter guards paired together as starters fail much more than they work.

Keep in mind, this is just my opinion.

Is it still ok to have a different opinion here?

 

[Blue Mamba]

They should investigate anyway to figure out why they signed DeAndre Jordan at all

 

[703 hwy]

You gotta swing on him